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Attigny meeting, see B. Kasten, Adalhard von Corbie. Die Biographie eines karolingischen Politikers und Klostervorstehers (Düsseldorf, 1986), pp. 142–4; E. Boshof, Ludwig der Fromme (Darmstadt, 1996), pp. 148–50. The most circumstantial comments on the political context of that penance of 822 are given by O. Guillot, ‘Autour de la pénitence publique de Louis le Pieux (822)’, in J. Hoareau-Dodinau, X. Rousseaux and P. Texier (eds), Le pardon (Limoges, 1999), 281–313 (rev. edn in Guillot, Arcana imperii, 341–70); and by De Jong, Penitential State, pp. 122–31. 11 This
be long in coming – and in Agobard’s view, such a punishment could affect the entire polity.52 Agobard indicated in his text that he had personally presented these arguments in Attigny in 822, at an episcopal council that the emperor had not attended.53 We hear hints of how Agobard’s performance resonated with the assembled magnates: the archbishop reported that Adalhard and the Conventus Suessionensis (a. 853), c. 12, ed. A. Boretius, MGH Cap. 2, 263–6, p. 266. Capitulare missorum Suessionense (a. 853), c. 12, ed. A. Boretius, MGH Cap. 2, 266–70, p. 270. 51
Adalhard, a pious, devout, and God-fearing man, and a relative of the blessed man Gebhard according to consanguinity of the flesh; he was not, however, from Swabia, but lived in a distant land. Many great estates in the pagus of Illergau – that is, near Aichstetten and Breitenbach, Rieden, Hausen, and Steinbach – fell into his rule through inheritance. Whenever this man came from his land and visited these estates (which he did very rarely), all of the inhabitants hastened to greet him with their little gifts, just as all serfs do for their lord. But because he was